volunteer sample Flashcards

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strength: very quick and easy

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quick, easy and cheap to conduct, all required is an advert, wait for ppts to volunteer, unlike random sampling which takes time

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weakness: sample may be bias

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only certain type of personality (extrovert/curious) will volunteer, more likely to please researcher, difficult to generalise to target population

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